August 11, 2009

Who is William Kostric? MySpace Page Tells All

Who: The nutbucket with the gun outside Obama’s town hall.

What: Said nutbucket’s MySpace page:

http://www.myspace.com/keysersoce

Why you should go there: Because he says some rather unsettling things; e.g.:

So Santa Claus is a metaphor for god, unconditional love or whatever we once believed in very strongly and now know to be false. Of course the intial realization causes some pain, disillusionment, insecurity, a laundry list of negative emotions.

The big one for me was anger. What was the point of the lie to begin with? Then perhaps fear. If I was so wrong on this point, what else am I completely mistaken about?

You begin to question everything and one day you realize that isn’t a bad thing. You begin to enjoy the path of self realization. Or, you can choose to reject the real world and get plugged back into the Matrix, to go through life with your Eyes Wide Shut. …

He also quotes Al Swearengen (a pimp, Wikipedia notes correctly, who “lured desperate young women from far away to Deadwood, then forced them into prostitution through a combination of bullying and physical brutality”), and lists among his “heroes”:

• Robert Shultz: anti-tax radical and founder of We the People Foundation.

• Randy Weaver: end-of-timer, white supremacist, anti-government radical, and Ruby Ridge leader — who, not so coincidentally, is BFFs with New Hampshire tax evader Ed Brown, who in 2007 “vowed … that he and his wife would fight U.S. marshals to the death if they tried to capture them.” (Brown also “insisted that he could not receive a fair trial in a federal court because ‘the court system falls under freemasonry.’”)

• Ayn Rand’s fictional John Galt.

What is the significance of John Galt? Amy Benfer explains in Mother Jones:

Something about the semi-employed, blue-collar media darling reminded Smith of John Galt, the mysterious industrialist hero of Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel, Atlas Shrugged. Fed up with the federal government’s confiscatory economic policies, Galt urged his fellow “producers” to go on a “strike of the mind” to starve the “looters” who were redistributing wealth to the “moochers.” [Helen Smith, wife of so-called Blogfather Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds, and herself a blogger for the conservative Pajamas Media network] asked her readers to come up with ways to “go John Galt” — that is, “cut back on what they need, make less money, and take it easy so that the government is starved of funds.”

Since then, “going Galt” has become, as the Cato Institute’s Will Wilkinson quipped, “a certain kind of libertarian-conservative’s version of progressives threatening to move to Canada.” After all, if right-wingers are no longer in a position to shrink government to the point where, as Grover Norquist once proposed, they can “drown it in the bathtub,” they can still take their rubber duckies and go home.

Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, and California Rep. John Campbell have endorsed the virtues of dropping out. C. Jeffery Small, the founder of go-galt.org, one of several hastily designed Galt-themed websites, has urged patriots to put the “fear of Galt” into members of Congress by burying their offices in copies of Atlas Shrugged. Small initially resisted sending the books through the post office, “it being a government agency,” but decided it was okay to go postal when his wife pointed out (falsely) that the USPS loses money on every item it handles, making the book bombardment a “covert ‘John Galt’ action to help further bankrupt the government.”

Kung Fu Monkey sums it up perfectly:

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

How we know it’s the same nutbucket:

• Often links to the site exmeasententia.com (a Ron Paul supporter site he owns; more about that below) from comments on other sites — such as this one, where he demonstrates that he is not averse to murdering police officers:

If people can’t wake up and see why it’s immoral to trespass and destroy someones property, kidnap and lock them in a cage for growing a plant in their backyard then perhaps a body count is what’s required for change.

• Uses same graphic on MySpace and Meetup (where he belongs to some “revolutionary”-sounding Meetup groups).

• MySpace page says he works in “Gaming - Marketing - Marketing,” which is right in line with the the sole entry for a “William Kostric” in LinkedIn: “William Kostric - Independent Gambling & Casinos Professional - Phoenix, Arizona Area … Industry - Gambling & Casinos”. (Remember, he’s from Arizona, and moved to New Hampshire only about a year ago — “because it’s a ‘live free or die’ state — and he thought Arizona was becoming too restrictive with its gun laws.”)

What else we know: Belongs to a purportedly Libertarian, anti-government, pro-secession message forum, “New Hampshire Underground” (which sounds like a fringe militia aching to take over New Hampshire and secede from the Union):

Title: Re: NH Underground threatened with shutdown
Post by: William on July 11, 2008, 12:08 AM NHFT

I know a guy if you need one. http://www.liquidcomputer.com/

He’s good people and has taken heat for me on two occasions when I was threatened with lawsuits.

He currently hosts both of my websites.

http://www.bullseyepoker.com/

http://www.exmeasententia.com/

Yes, the second one needs to be updated. I figure it’ll get a major overhaul this winter when don’t want to set foot outside.

Copy and paste link if you actually want to see it (and then take a shower): http://nhunderground.com/forum/index.php?action=printpage;topic=14663.0

Now… Are you as disturbed as we are by a guy like this, with a handgun strapped to his leg, wandering around anywhere within 100 miles of Barack Obama?

Posted by: Sapphocrat

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